Save The Independent Living Fund

EDM number 1234 in 2013-14, proposed by Anne Begg on 31/03/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Benefits policy, Local government and Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House is deeply concerned by the plan to close, by June 2015, the Independent Living Fund (ILF) on which over 18,000 severely disabled people rely instead of being in residential care; questions the Government's rationale for local authorities taking over this funding given their higher overheads and squeezed budgets; notes that experts believe this financial pressure and loss of experienced ILF staff will mean current recipients will be placed in residential care or left at home without adequate care provision; further notes that many users will no longer be eligible for any local authority care funding because of tightening of eligibility criteria; is aware that the average cost of the ILF at

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.